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Re: erroneous messages at bootup?



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>On Tue, 10 Jun 1997 02:37:02 PDT Nick (masked@peak.org) wrote:
>
>> How do I get diald to hang up after a period of idle connection? I've
>> had no trouble getting it to dial on demand, but then it just stays
>> connected, even when I leave the connection idle for long periods.
>> 
>> Would pppd's lcp-echo thing cause it to think the link was active?
>
>No, diald doesn't see the LCP packets, they're filtered out by pppd.
>There must be some packets going in or out to maintain the link active. Enable the debu
>gging in diald ('debug 255') and see what packets are going through.
>I'm thinking of rwhod for example.
>Then add an ignore rule to your filter.


	There are ICMP echos from my ISP - I guess thats what keeping
	it alive - how exactly would I filter those?

NIck


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